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The first four commandments of the law teach us how to love God, even how to love Him in worship on the day of His choosing. It is important for us to understand the fourth commandment, in which God gives His command for the day of His worship: "Remember the ...
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We are dealing now with a group of people who, apart from this doctrine, are genuinely orthodox. They have no doubt whatever that justification is by faith alone. And when they speak of justification, they mean the remission of sins by the shed blood of Jesus Christ, the incarnate second person of the Godhead, who was born of the Virgin Mary, fulfilled the law on our behalf, was delivered up for our offenses, and rose again bodily for our justification.
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The March edition of Tabletalk is out. This month's theme is "Acts of the Apostles." The issue examines the main point and purpose of Saint Luke’s Acts of the Apostles. Contributors include R.C. Sproul, Fred Klett, David VanDrunen, Brian Tallman, Iain D. Campbell, Robert Godfrey, Keith Mathison and Donald Whitney.
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Biblical worship invades the human soul. It is the soul that too often has been banished from modern worship. We are a people preoccupied with self-image, self-esteem, and self-gratification. Yet in all this we don’t even know what a “self” is.
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There is a crisis of worship in our land. People are staying away from church in droves. One survey indicated that the two chief reasons people drop out of church are that it is boring and irrelevant.
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In the diagram presented at the beginning of this essay, you will notice that, after the liberal formula, the other four formulae all begin not with works, but with faith. That shows that they are all at least possibly Christian, whereas liberalism, on the very surface of it, cannot be. One cannot conceivably believe that salvation is by his own efforts and be a believer in Jesus Christ. All of these other views, the right one and the three other deviations, have this in common: they begin where they ought to begin, not with works, but with faith. From here on out we are dealing with people who have a right to be considered tentatively, at least, as Christian. I must phrase myself very carefully here. I consider that three of these remaining four ways are not soundly Christian, but are fatally deviant from it. By saying they may be tentatively considered as Christian, I mean this: at least they start out right. They do profess faith in Jesus Christ, as a Christian (if he is to bear that name) must do. Whether they are consistent in their affirmation or not remains to be seen. By contrast, liberalism is fatally wrong from the very beginning because it begins not with Christ’s salvation, but with man’s own achievement.
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Reformation Trust Publishing is releasing a new book this month by Dr. Sinclair Ferguson entitled By Grace Alone: How the Grace of God Amazes Me. The inspiration for this title came from a little-known hymn, "O How the Grace of God Amazes Me," by African pastor Emmanuel T. Sibomana. One of the things that makes this hymn unusually unique is that it touches on aspects of grace other hymns do not address and provides content worthy of further exploration. Each of the eight chapters of By Grace Alone is based upon a stanza of the hymn.
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Liberalism believes justification is earned by works. The liberal believes that by acting virtuously while abstaining from sin, he may make himself acceptable to God, that is, be justified or be considered by God a just or righteous person. For him, justification means being made just by his own efforts. His is a do-it-yourself religion. Its golden text is, ‘‘Do this and thou shalt live.” The liberal believes that he can earn his own salvation by his own efforts. The gospel or good news for a liberal is the discovery of his own potentialities, and he is perfectly confident that he can make it on his own without any help from anybody, including God. He does not need Jesus Christ as a Savior. He needs no Savior because he is quite able to cope, thank you. He may or may not think that you are okay, but he has no doubt that you may be okay and that he is okay. Give him the light and he will find his own way. This is the gospel of self-esteem.
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Homerun kings, ballroom dancing, Bavinck, and tender moments with James Boice -- all that and more in this special tour of R.C. Sproul's study.
Dr. Sproul will be participating in the 2010 Together for the Gospel conference in Louisville, Kentucky. Learn more or register today.
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